Hanging For Django

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Ive read alot of reviews of people putting down the spaghetti western genre calling the lead actors clunt Eastwood knock offs and so on. And to be perfectly honest. I love Italian euro westerns more than the American films and obviously these people never seen o ru watch one spaghetti western all the way through. But spaghetti western greats like Anthony steffen, George Hilton, giuillano Gemma, klaus kinski, and the late Tomas milian and franco nero and mr Eastwood himself are enough to prove that the European and Italian western genre was one of the greatest ever to hit screens and to be re released on dvd blu ray. And this film definitely proves it .

This film was directed in 1969 by Italian director Sergio Garrone, a director that might be better known to some as the director of Nazi exploitation films (not very good by the way), including SS camp women's hell, and SS experiment love camp. This detail is interesting because this spaghetti western is way better than those exploitation films. On this western, bounty hunters Johnny Brandon (Anthony Steffen) and Everett Murdock (William Berger) teams up together in order to take on a ruthless gang of human smugglers working the Mexican border. Of course, you get double crossing between them, lots of shooting, but with little care on showing realistic bullet bloody wounds. Despite that, this is generally a well-made film with a neat final gun-down that you will recognize where the idea came from!! Steffen and especially Berger are pretty cool anti heroes. Berger in particular handles a shotgun with seven barrels. One original point on this film is the depiction of illegal immigration across the US-Mexican border. Overall, this films rates slightly above average, but clearly below any Leone or Corbucci film.Technically, I do not quite agree with at least one other reviewer. The transfer is of very good quality, yet not what you may be expecting for a Blu-ray format. The image comes in widescreen format. Audio comes in English and Italian, with English subtitles. Extras include an analysis of Garrone's films that remain interesting to me at least. Also included is a nice color booklet on the film and Garrone. The movie runs for 92 minutes.

Hanging for Django is the English title for Una Lunga Fila di Croci (which translates to A Long Row of Crosses, a much better title) is a low budget film directed by Sergio Garrone and stars Anthony Steffen and William Berger. The film itself is just OK as Spag Westerns go but the Blu Ray transfer is really impressive and a huge improvement over previously available prints of this movie. The editing is somewhat hurky jerky and the plot twists and turns so much towards the end it is hard to keep up with. I do like William Berger in his role as the preacher bounty hunter and how can you go wrong with Mario Brega and Nicoletta Machiavelli. Like I said, not one of the top films of the genre, but worth the price of admission especially with this new transfer.

Although the movie is really a fairly mediocre Spaghetti Western, the transfer gives it an extra star in my estimation. It should also be noted that the Amazon specs for the standard DVD are wrong. The aspect ratio is 2.35, as it should be, and it has Italian or English language options. The best thing about the movie itself are the two stars Anthony Steffen and William Berger who are always worth watching.

This film is advertised as being in Italian with English subtitles. This is wrong. One can click the film to indicate that the language should be English. One can also get English subtitles for the hearing impaired. There is no funny movements when English is used, such as lips still moving after the speech is finished.I was hoping that the film would be as good as the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti westerns. It has many of the elements of this genre - the long staring without speech, the dress of the men, how they speak, constant frowning, the hero being beat up, and the music - but it is not as good. I was put off by the hero smiling a couple of time, Clint never smiled. Nevertheless, I liked it. There was lots of action.The story is about two bounty hunters. One is interested in human rights. The other is only interested in money, and he murders people. The villain in the film transports poor Mexicans into the US to work for a cheaper price than the Americans.

Great transfer and very good Spaghetti Western! Better than most I've seen on blu-ray. Highly recommended!!

Spaghetti-Western decisamente di seconda fascia che copia a piene mani dalla trilogia del dollaro (soprattutto da "Per qualche dollaro in più"), noioso e scontato si riprende un pochino nel finale.Attori come Anthony Steffen, William Berger, Mario Brega mal diretti e poco carismatici, attori secondari scarsi, regia poco incisiva...solo per appassionati del genere da vedere una volta per curiosità e nulla più.Degno di nota invece il restauro video considerando che si tratta di una pellicola di fine anni 60, immagini nitide e pulite, aspec-ratio originale 2.35:1. Non altrettanto si può dire del comparto audio dove abbiamo un semplice Dolby Digital 2.0 si in inglese che in italiano piuttosto piatto.Presente negli extra un breve documentario in lingua italiana riguardo il film e il regista Sergio Garrone.Da comprare giusto per averlo in collezione!

Great quality picture...fair Spaghetti western.

Siamo sulla buona strada!Da amante del genere "Spaghetti Western",definizione che,spesso,può risultare riduttiva,mi sembra doveroso mettere in rilievo la qualità tecnica di questo blu- ray di importazione,con traccia audio anche in lingua italiana,che fa ben sperare in un roseo futuro a livello di scelte di mercato.Per quanto riguarda l'aspetto artistico,il film,girato a costi ridotti,a mio avviso,non delude le attese: valida la regia di Sergio Garrone,buona l'interpretazione degli attori protagonisti,Anthony Steffen e William Berger,serrato il ritmo narrativo, in un taglio di immagine alquanto originale.Ottimo il livello qualità-prezzo!